Nick Bantock Quotes
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.
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Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.
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Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
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No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
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At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.
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I repulse death with all my strength. If I accepted it, I would be a murderer.
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I've been your slave Ever since I've been your babe But before I be your dog I'll see you in your grave.
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You've been vilified, used as fodder, you deserve a piece of every record.
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As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.
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Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states' rights, or his rights over State, or some such. Whatever the reason, the sight of an old Klansman blocking a little colored girl from Birmingham from getting into her office contributed to the general retro vibe that hangs around the Democratic Party these days.
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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
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she hurriedly wipes her eyes so that he can see the girl he wishes.
